QUOTE(GymBoi @ Mar 17 2017, 11:18 PM)
Bro, I got this due to your overwhelming support lol. 1 question that even Lenovo can't answer me.
How do i format this thing lol. You know, Windows. Gotta do the formatting once a year. Where is the CD? Heck, where is the serial key for the windows? hmm
The "serial" is actually embedded in the UEFI/BIOS. You normally would never need to enter one. But you can always download Nirsoft Produkey to get the serial in numerical format, just in case:
https://goo.gl/XYmsZcSo HOW do you clean format a Win 10 device?
You just download the Windows 10 image maker off Microsoft's website, and create an installation image/media on a pendrive and boot off that. The serial should be read off the UEFI and Windows should install fine.
Be ready to plug in a mouse and keyboard IN CASE the system doesn't automatically detect your touchscreen though, as this has already happened to me once back on my Acer W4.
In regards to the serial, keep in mind that "severe" system modifications (Microsoft says changing motherboards falls under this) might make the system key invalid, though this probably doesn't apply to the 510 as the only time we might need a motherboard change is when ours die.
Also, if you trust Microsoft, log in with (or create) a Microsoft account and go to the Microsoft website to "pair" a Windows system key to your account. This works as a "backup" in case the UEFI embedded serial becomes invalid/borked up for some unknown reason. This also applies to authentic Office serials as well, apparently.
And finally, drivers are shipped together with the 510 on one of the SSD partitions, though some of them are prolly out of date. They should be fine to start with post format though.
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
But really, if all you want is to start clean every year, maybe a "refresh" of the system through Win 10 itself (or through a premade disk image using Macrium Reflect + Macrium WinPE recovery) might be preferable to a true blue format simply due to the hassle of starting from zero IMHO.
I mean, that's what most "recovery" solutions do anyway IINM. Just a separate partition/set of disks containing the "base" disk image and a wrapper program to flash it to your main storage.
It's just that apparently Microsoft seems to have deemed third party "recovery" solutions obsolete with the build-in Win10 refresh tools... because I haven't seen REAL "recovery" partitions/media in AGES.
Myself I don't trust Microsoft entirely so yeah I have a "base" Macrium Reflect disk image stashed somewhere just in case everything goes to hell.
This post has been edited by Eiraku: Mar 18 2017, 12:33 AM